Melbourne, Australia – Lewis HamiltonIn tenth place on Sunday Australian Grand Prix race It was the beginning of pedestrians in Ferrari after months of noise and speculation, but it was at least an authentic experience of the race for the modern Italian team.
“Things went much worse than I thought would happen,” Hamilton said on Sunday evening.
For the first time Ferrari Classic was not. Former world champions like Nigel Manzil, Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso Everyone won the first picnic in redBut Hamilton did not seem to be a victory competitor on Sunday.
His gender carried a familiar feeling for various reasons, especially for anyone who followed this team for more than a few years. It was the weekend that witnessed Ferrari fading with the start of competitive sessions and a race that soon became a disorganized radio connection, lost opportunities, and a slow feeling that follows Scuderia often in the modern era.
Of course, it should be said that it could have been much worse. The Australian race was like Albert Park in Old, a competition heading towards the young and former world champions like Alonso. The smile that accompanied Hamilton since we saw it for the first time was in the distinctive colors of the Enzo Ferrari team there on Sunday evening, and it was in a philosophical mood about how things went.
“Certainly a large crashing cycle today,” Hamilton told the media after the race. “I am only grateful because I came outside the wall.”
His point of view is the correct one he takes early in his talisman. There is no clear reason to panic about his weekend movement in one race. The pace that some of the gate might have expected did not exist, but the reduced conditions existed.
Hamilton did not join Ferrari because he was convinced that he could win the Australian Grand Prix of the year 2025, just like that he did not join Mercedes in 2013 to be certain that he would win the first race. However, the nature of the Grand Prize race highlighted some of the direct issues facing Hamilton that he needs to be addressed if he immediately wanted to get the best of this new chapter of his career.
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It didn’t take a long time until a clear competitive image was formed in Melbourne. Despite Hamilton’s colleague Charles Licerrick He had finished Friday’s training in a strong position, Ferrari’s challenge faded in the qualifiers, as McLaren closed the front row from the network. The gap may be different with F1 calendar cycles through the upcoming sites, but the feeling of fenugreek is that in dry conditions, McLaren will be a step forward in the foreseeable future.
There were more urgent things for Hilmlton than the place where his car was in relation to competitors; Just cutting the gap to Leclerc was the task of most of the weekend. The British was keen to sign How many challenges that jump had to jump into a completely new team?Especially after 12 years of race in one place. On Thursday’s media day, Hamilton revealed that Ferrari’s lar -on -heading plans to plan work times upside down compared to how to use it in Mercedes; The man who replaced him, Carlos ScienceHe has been struggling with the same thing since moving to Williams at the beginning of the year.
Since joining Ferrari, Hamilton has explained his first time in a minister, which is the first time that he climbed in the car, and it is the first time that he got out of the garage. Another Sunday race was invaluable.
“I felt that I was in the deep end today,” he said. “Everything is new, the first time I drove this car in the rain, the car was very different from what I went through in the past. The energy unit, all the guidance functions, all the things that are delivered to you, trying to reconcile all these new things.”
This was never more evident than in the radio communication between Hamilton and Ferrari Wall a hole. It is an area that has been thrown in the past. Her confusing drivers, whether it is a biking from plan A to plan D or messages like LCLERC, is asked to stay in the middle of the road already in the middle of the road in Monaco, a hole, it was a feed for MIm makers for years, although it is also a field of the process that has improved moisture under the leadership of the Ferrani Director Vaswar. The Australian race collected this trend slightly, on both sides of the hole wall.
It was actually a radio exchange between LCLERC and his engineer Bian Bouzi, who has really produced the first viral moment for the new season. The retreat and the background went on so:
Leclerc: “Is there a leak?”
Bosi: “What?”
Leclerc: “I have a full seat of water, like, full of water!”
Bozi: “The water should be.”
Leclerc: “We will add this to the words of wisdom.”
After the race, Leclerc revealed that he quickly learned that the leakage came from his water bottle, as no liquid left when he went to drink from straw inside his helmet in the next lap. Bozzi’s response is more logical in this context, but it will continue to decrease in F1 Folklore as one of the wonderful radio exchanges.
The communication between Hamilton and its side of the Ferrari hole wall was embarrassing. After 12 years of working with Peter Bonington, who was pronouncing the famous invitation “OK Lewis, is a hammer time” as instructions for the wonderful F1 to start paying, Hamilton collaborated with Ricardo Adami this season. The relationship between the driver-Engineer is one of the most important things in this sport and the messages that have been broadcast, and those that you can find and that did not make the pieces of TV highlight two men who still know the best way to work together. In one stage, Hamilton asked, “Just do not repeat everything [you say]please.”
Another example of their increasing pain came in the middle of the race, as Adami advised Hamilton that the preparation of “K1” was available to him on the wheel. “Leave me, please,” was a very polite response from the world champion seven times as he tried to keep Ferrari indicating the right direction on the soaking path. Talk to any of the network engineers about their communications with drivers and will tell you that exchanges at the race heat are rarely immersed. After all, the most famous F1 radio message in all times was räikkönen. The race engineer tells that he is “leaving [him] One “ Because he knew what to do.
Commar Clunky later continued in the race. Ferrari tried to accept the request by staying outside the dry tires, and it mimics at the beginning Max VersabenThe decision to do the same.
“Are there more rains?” Hamilton asked at some point that the race had once again traveled to the unexpected madness. “Next. This is only, hope. Let’s see,” he answered. “It is still raining in the hole lane.”
As Hamilton has passed on the start of the start directly-another completion first, as he briefly led the race as Verstapen also exfoliates the medium wet tires-Hamilton realized immediately what was happening.
“Ah —, we should have come,” he said. “More rain comes. The whole track is moist now.”
It is difficult to predict weather, of course, but all this alluded to the lack of familiarity between the two. Many drivers engineering relationships depend on mutual trust in each other’s calls, or simply know each other well so that the deeper meaning of the radio message is understood immediately. Hamilton and Adam seem to be a completely different wavelength.
By the time when Hamilton, late, dug Versaben (who went to second place), his frustration was clear.
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“Words of Wisdom” a letter of satirical water leakage for LECLERC
Charles Leclerc responds sarcastically via a radio message to the team after reporting the water leakage in Ferrari.
“I thought you said it wouldn’t rain much,” said Hamilton. “We have lost a great opportunity there.”
When Adami Hamilton told that he fell to the ninth place, it seemed that the 40-year-old was leaving the radio button that was paid down, and they pronounced “S —“, before apologizing.
Their relationship and dynamism will only improve. Hamilton praised himself for his new engineer after the race.
“I think Ricardo did a really good job,” he said. “We learn each other little by little. After that, we will download, go to all the comments, the things that I said and vice versa. Generally, I am not the one who loved a lot of information in the race unless I need it and asked for that. He did his best today and we will move forward.”
Vasuor said it is an area that Ferrari should eat immediately.
Vasour said: “This was the first race, and it is the first time that we have to communicate between the wall of the hole and the car, and we can do better and know each other.” “Certainly it was not clean at all, the strategy was difficult and we need to find a better way to communicate between the car and the hole wall, but we will learn from one race and not a problem.”
Hamilton and Adam have the opportunity to work immediately again in the Chinese Grand Prix this week. Looking at how the opening match of Australia is going, radio communications in Ferrari will be under the microscope in Shanghai more than usual.
